ELEPHANT HERD IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND Photograph via Biggieholla on Reddit This beautiful photograph was apparently captured at the Patara Elephant Farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Patara is currently ranked as the #1 attraction in Chiang Mai on Trip Advisor with an average 5 star rating from 699 reviews. A reverse image…
The Solvay Hut is the highest hut on the Matterhorn at 4,003 meters (13,133 ft). Situated on a ledge immediately above the Moseley Slab on the Hörnligrat, it’s a small emergency refuge that can accommodate about 10 people. It is strictly to be used in the event of an emergency but many climbers…
BORA BORA FROM SPACE Photograph by PLEIADES-HR SATELLITE This dramatic aerial photograph of Bora Bora was taken by France and Italy’s recently launched Pleidades-HR Satellite in January of 2012. The satellite orbits the Earth at an altitude of 694 km (431 miles). Pleiades is made of two “small satellites” (mass of one…
Artwork by Florentijn Hofman Florentijn Hofman is a Dutch artist based out of Rotterdam. He’s internationally renowned for his large-scale sculptures which often originate from recognizable, everyday objects. In his ongoing Rubber Duck series, Florentijn takes the iconic rubber duck (that children around the world can identify), and takes it to a massive…
THE GIANT THREE STOREY INDOOR SLIDES IN MUNICH, GERMANY Photograph by MARTIN ROELL The Technische Universität München (TUM; University of Technology, Munich; Technical University of Munich) is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan. It is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable…
Photograph by SHANE TORGERSON The Barringer Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest…
VOLCANO FIRE PIT ON THE BEACH Photograph by KRIS KRÜG (kk+ on Flickr) My friend @TrusthSeerum sent me this awesome picture of a huge fire pit on the beach. It was probably a raging bonfire at one point in the evening; but as the fire burned down and only the glowing red…
In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. Known also as a conflux, it refers either to the point where a tributary joins a larger river, called the main stem, or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name, such as…
THE INCREDIBLE HAMILTON POOL NATURE PRESERVE Photograph by DAVE WILSON PHOTOGRAPHY Although we’ve already featured this incredible place as the Picture of the Day on October 3, 2011, this second shot also by the talented Dave Wilson was too good to pass up. Offering a completely different yet equally dramatic view of…
THE THREE-TIERED WATERFALL OF BAATARA GORGE Photograph by missakassim on Panoramio.com The Baatara gorge waterfall (Balaa gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon. The waterfall drops 255 metres (837 ft) into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail. Discovered in 1952 by French…
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